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Fourth GenerationDiamond, Pearl, and Platinum kicked off the fourth generation of Pokémon. Two years later, fans of the Johto region were treated to a remastered adventure in HeartGold & SoulSilver. Discuss the games, explore the features, share your experiences, and help other players out!

I kept the Gyarados because it had a good nature, and I wanted to EV it and use it for competitive battling. Otherwise I would have put it on my in-game team. It is really strong and also, who wouldn't like to use a shiny on their team?

I don't like using Pokemon I'm handed. I've only used it a few times and that was in the original games, I prefer to use Pokemon other people don't (Currently Slowking, Forretress, Miltank and soon Muk but that's besides the point).

But I think today the game really hit back at me because of my disregard of the red monster fish and my reluctance to use it by gifting me this http://i46.tinypic.com/29xd6yo.png. Many tantrums were had.

When I first saw the red Gyarados I never actually thought about capturing it, I thought it was some kind of challenge for me to kill it, so I did and way after that I realized it was worth catching...

Well on my first run through when I had little to no knowledge of Pokemon, all I knew was that my friend like Gyarados and he only liked strong Pokemon. And it was red so I thought I was special having it.

Now I usually just defeat it instead, since on my second play-through, when i have a lot more knowledge on the games, I already have a water type.

I dumped mine in the PC, as I already had plenty of water types by that point in the game. In HG, I started with Totodile, and I like Feraligatr better than Gyarados. In SS, I think I had a Quagsire on my team that I wanted to use instead (as I had one of those on my team back in Gold).

In general, I tend to have enough electric weaknesses as it is in-game, between a water-type starter (except in SS) and a flyer, so I tend to shy away from Pokemon later in the game that share that electric weakness. Also, I suppose I tend to feel that shiny Pokemon should be properly EV trained before use, and I wasn't in the mood to EV train the Red Gyarados when I got it, so I dumped it in my PC and figured I'd deal with it later. As it turns out, I still haven't gotten around to training it yet.

I ended up keeping the red gyarados as part of my main team but I rarely used it. It takes awhile to level up and it's always weird using a shiny Pokemon, especially when you prefer the normal version's color scheme. I probably trained it about 10 levels before giving up on it; my other Pokemon were a lot more useful to me anyway.

I'm an oldschool pokemon player- I played Pokemon Silver a few days before it officially was released(never did find out why they did that), and yes, in that game, I did use my Red Gyarados.

In Soul Silver, however, I didn't care in the least. Let him die.

That been said, in all the years i played pokemon, i only found two shinys- and the first?

Magikarp.

I was so conflicted....the magikarp was rare, but useless, and the gyarados was powerful, but was the easiest and most common shiny to get.....i think i eventually evolved it.....i still regret that choice

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